Re: [microsound] State of Music

[Peter Price <pprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hmmm...maybe this is why i have remained a lurker...

you are leaving out the first part of my statement

> > given the infinite possibilities for the
> > organization of frequency over time

my only point was to try and see the bigger picture and to remember 
that changes in style are not really that profound.

If a musical object under consideration has the feeling of a regular 
meter and a frequency content spanning the range of 100 to 10000 cps or 
so, roughly organized by integer multiplication (like the harmonic 
series), to my way of thinking, in light of the infinite variety of 
possible ways to organize frequencies of changes in air pressure over 
time, this musical object is

> indistinguishable from disco

Its all about the scale or resolution with which you examine your 
culture. Its like non western listeners who felt that all pieces of 
western classical music were indistinguishable from military marches.

why the yikes? Is this way of thinking really so inflamatory?

On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, at 11:48 PM, graham miller wrote:

> indistinguishable from disco? yikes. here we go...
>
> Peter Price wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, November 24, 2004, at 10:55 PM, graham miller wrote:
> >
> > > > to step back from ones favored cultural perspective and try to see a
> > > > broader picture. The argument can be made that all the micro-genres 
> > > > of
> > > > electronica are just subsets of disco.
> > >
> > > i totally disagree with this one. but my typing fingers are tired.
> >
> > Does anyone else have non tired fingers and want to tackle this one?
> >
> > My thought is simply that given the infinite possibilities for the
> > organization of frequency over time, much of the music discussed here
> > is indistinguishable  from disco.
> >
> > To refute this statement might prompt some interesting thinking...or
> > maybe not.
> >
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